Two key leadership positions at the University or Arizona have been filled with interim leaders.
Jory Hancock, director of UA’s School of Dance, has been appointed interim dean of the College of Fine Arts.
He replaces Dean Maurice J. Sevigny, who announced last month he will retire a year earlier than planned.
In addition, Lynne O. Wood, UA deputy general counsel, will serve as interim vice president for legal affairs and interim general counsel.
She will replace Judith E. Leonard, who has taken the position of general counsel for the Smithsonian Institution.
Hancock will begin his interim position July 1, and Wood will begin June 6, UA leaders said.
The university will conduct an internal search for a permanent College of Fine Arts dean, Provost Meredith Hay said in a campus memo.
The position of UA general counsel will be permanently filled only after a national search, President Robert N. Shelton said in a news release.
Leslie Tolbert, vice president for research, graduate studies and economic development, will chair the search committee for general counsel.